Japanese aesthetic Akagawa, 47, has practiced kana shodo for two decades and is now one of the youngest master calligraphers in Japan, in which the average age of a highly accomplished master ...

The project features the makeover of a family apartment in Tokyo ’s Azabu neighbourhood, on a quiet, residential hill tucked away between Roppongi and Shibuya. The peaceful interiors combine Japanese ...

Most Japanese aesthetic concepts are historical and art form-specific. Postwar Japanese painting, it seems, exists in an aesthetic concept vacuum.

Frank Lloyd Wright Credited Japan for His All-American Aesthetic The famed architect was inspired by drawings and works from the Asian nation Kevin Nute, The Conversation June 8, 2017 ...

Wabi-sabi is typically described as a traditional Japanese aesthetic: the beauty of something perfectly imperfect, in the sense of “flawed” or “unfinished.” ...

But it’s actually an ancient idea. For hundreds of years, Japan’s dominant aesthetic has been wabi sabi, which values the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete.